NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg visited Sweden Monday and said the Nordic country has taken steps to meet Turkey’s demands for approving Stockholm’s NATO membership.
Turkey has objected to Sweden and Finland joining NATO over their alleged ties to the PKK, a Kurdish militant group Ankara considers a terrorist organization, and due to export controls the Nordic countries placed on Turkey in 2019.
Stoltenberg said Sweden has taken steps to amend its counterterrorism laws and adjust export controls. “I welcome that Sweden has already started to change its counterterrorism legislation and that Sweden will ensure that the legal framework for arms export will reflect the future status as a NATO member with new commitments to allies,” Stoltenberg said.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said her country is working on strengthening its counterterrorism laws. “From the first of July we will also have even stronger legislation when it comes to the fight against terrorism,” she said.
In May, Swedish and Finnish delegations met with Turkish officials in Ankara. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the Nordic countries were handed their security demands in writing at the meeting, and that it would require the Nordic nations to amend their laws.
While Sweden appears to be changing its laws, a deal Andersson’s government made in parliament last week to survive a no-confidence vote against its justice minister may complicate its efforts to meet Turkey’s demands.
To survive the vote, Sweden’s ruling Social Democrats needed the support of Amineh Kakabaveh, an independent MP of Kurdish-Iranian heritage. Kakabaveh voted with the government and said afterward that the Social Democrats agreed not to cave to Turkey’s demands regarding the Kurds and reaffirmed support for a resolution passed last November that called for cooperation with the Democratic Union Party, which is considered the Syrian affiliate of the PKK.
So Amineh Kakabaveh, an independent MP of Kurdish-Iranian heritage. Kakabaveh voted with the Swedish government — trading not getting rid of the pathetic justice minister in exchange for a neo-con-like defense of the armed wing of a political party of a foreign country. She is a Swedish citizen; shouldn’t her actions reflect that? Women in Sweden are instructed not to go to certain areas, or to wear burkas…rapes are at an all time high, so on. The US is not alone in experiencing this kind of divided loyalty.
Maybe you should let Swedish MPs do their own thing, our should they do Russia’s bidding?
Russia will totally lose control of Northern Europe when Finland and Sweden join NATO.
NATO troops will be based just a few kilometres away from Putin’s beloved Saint Petersburg,
Sweden and Finlands entry into the US aggression pact was supposed to be the consolation prize to save face after the fiasco in the ukraine but nothing will satisfy the turks in this regard, they have other plans, and the failed Norwegian politician turned Nato kriegs-führer are already talking about the ukraine getting used to the idea of “losing” half of the land to Russia to end the war. I think we’re past that….
Good for Turkey; I hope they hold the line. Next, they should demand the US drop all sanctions we placed on Turkey (for having the audacity to buy arms from a country we don’t approve of), restore Turkey into the F-35 program, and make Turkey good for the losses they incurred when they were kicked out of the program. And, demand the US acquiesce to Turkey’s security operations in Syrian Kurdistan.
NOT that I think Turkey is right, by any means; but if Biden is going to slither on his belly like a craven supplicant to the Saudis and the Emiratis, Erdogan might as well get himself some loving too. Ask for the moon; Biden is so pathetically desperate anything is possible.
Turkey won’t be happy until NATO promises to look the other way while it rapes, beheads and assassinates its way through the entire Kurdish population of North and East Syria. After all, they’ve had the sheer affront and audacity to create a fully fledged gender-equal democratic society up by the Turkish border, that stands as a beacon of light against the marauding Turkish orcs and their dreams of an ottoman caliphate. How dare they? Opposing Turkish genocide is “terrorism” – everyone knows that …
Yes, a gender-equal democratic beacon of light we Westerners can only hope to one day emulate.
What you are smoking? Or taking LSD ?
You are useful idiot but next level.
Ottoman Empire is gone,stop seen nightmares,
and stop taking whatever you are taking or stop smoking what ever you are smoking.
If you are planning to travel Turkiye you might as well show this comment of yours so you would have ” Midnight Express 2 ” and most likely you would enjoy your trip
Grow up and evolve, monkey man.
There is Genocide against American Indians,
Genocide against Canadian traditional owners,
Australian Aboriginals stolen generation,
Read and learn,you don’t stay ‘ Useful 🐒 monkey “